ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,574, issued on July 22.

"System and method for high density electrode management" was invented by John A. Cadwell (Richland, Wash.), Patrick Scott Jensen (West Richland, Wash.), Brandon Vazquez (Pasco, Wash.) and Wayne Dearing (Kennewick, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices and methods for advanced electrode management in neurological monitoring applications include receiving sockets configured to receive connectors having groups of electrodes. The physician is not required to manually map each electrode with its corresponding input channel. Electrodes are coupled to the corresponding input channels in groups throug...